Tulip's Tantrums

Having a house with 5 people and 5 critters and numerous fish - it makes for an incredible amount of noise among other things. Right now Drey and Braunt are serenading their sister in an attempt to tick her off. They've successfully ticked Dadums off a few times (oh, now Braunt's onto the What Child is This humfest ) ... and I can understand now why Grampa was the way he was when I joined the family - a quiet man sitting in the corner, shouting SHUT UP every so often. He had listened to so much bickering and nattering and jousting amongst the kids that it had driven him batty! Our Dadums seems to be at that point as well, so it just goes to prove that 17 years of raising kids can send one around the bend. My apologies to those of you waiting for the football banquet pictures. I have to get them sized down so that I can post them all online, and I haven't made that a priority this week. I am going to try to get them all finished today and posted, with the email

Raffi is missing from this set of pics. He was too busy hiding in the basement.

Well, this whole O.J. interview/book thing is just fucking freaky. That man needs help. Now I'm wondering how much the copies of the irretrievable pre-sales books will cost on eBay ? Or will they be seized by the publisher based on some law? Hmm... How was your day? Mine was very good again. It's nice to have such relaxing days; I realize I don't have to run like crazy to get things done just to wake up to the same insanity tomorrow morning. There are more "normal" paces of jobs and they are great. I had a co-worker over for lunch today; we had at least 40 minutes at the house where we snacked on our lunch and chatted about family things. Very, very, nice. Okay, here are some more pictures. I'm not sure how many I can get on one post but we'll soon find out (I think it's 5). I'll be doing more posts, so you're bound to have seen most of the pics before you read this part. :-) Toodles!

Once again I'm late on submitting. This was written last night, but when I started having trouble with sizing the pictures then I got off track on that and never got back to this. It's Nov.20 th today. Enjoy... Last night was the infamous football banquet. I got an early xmas present - a Nikon Coolpix S10 VR . It's quite the little toy. I was still figuring out how to use it, so lots of my pictures have those annoying little white spots ( if anyone can zip those out and send the pics back to me, that would be great ). I'm also having trouble getting the pictures down to a reasonable size. They start out at 1MB and when I crop and cut them, they're 2MB!? What's up with that? Anyway, I'm posting pics of kids first, then pets, then whatever comes next - probably football. Dre, Kiershyn and Braunt looked particularly good (if you ask me) - although Dre did look like he was attending a funeral during his pic with Braunt . Too funny! Have a look and let me

Do you ever just not understand at all where your spouse is coming from? I think it mostly happens when one or both of you are tired, but regardless how it happens it is so frustrating! Here's my question: Would you get po'd at your spouse because he/she doesn't like some sort of food or drink, especially if you really liked it? Work was good today: learning more and getting things straight in my head. Kids are all home and things are kind of back to normal, whatever that may be. I'm going to eat supper. May write more later, we'll see. Toodles!

Here are a few other Twyla's... Editor's note: Upon trying to update the links for the funny Twyla's, I successfully deleted them. I won't be taking the time to do them again (thank goodness, you're saying), however I will redo Twyla the Wonderdog as it is a personal favourite. Toodles!

Okay, maybe I'm a little wonky (like you didn't know that) - but if you know me at all then you know I really enjoy Kevin Burns . He calls himself an instigational speaker and I'm pretty sure I should be working for/with him, as the female counterpart. :-) Anyway, I just got notice today that Kev's blog is up and running, so I just have to include it here. There's also a link in the blog section. How was your day? Mine was pretty darn good, minus the lack of traction the gold (actually brass) beamer has. :-0 The first day on the job went well. I seem to have no trouble fitting in, I'm already onto the phones and doing 'real' work, and beginning to harass those who seem the most in need of it. My 'inner voice' let loose a bite me to one of the fellas, so the fun has begun. (He assured me he is a practical joker, so we'll see what he retorts with.) Anyhoo, it was great to leave the house at 7:55, come home for lunch for an hour an

If you woke up this morning, there is something for you to do. Figure it out or just make it through. If tomorrow comes, begin again. If it doesn't, it won't matter. Twyla

Dog Campaign for Real Beauty . I Believe In You . Dove's Little Girls . You're Still the One . If I Didn't Have You . Girl Beauty . I'm Gonna Getcha Good . Let It Rain . Best of Carl and Ray . You've Got a Way . Beautiful Goodbye . That Don't Impress Me Much . Spoof of Dove Commercial . Bloopers 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 .

It's great to hear that the little deer who got his head stuck in a fake pumpkin has managed to get it off . See where curiosity can get you? I actually got this picture from an article titled A Man's Guide to Unwanted Pregnancies . Have a read and keep yourself safe. Thinking of having sex without a condom then have a look at this . I read about these things when I do my morning news update: it includes a little time spent on the net reading the Sun and the AP . While I'm getting the hair and makeup done, I listen to CHED . In the evening I will spend a bit more time online reading others' blogs and following various links. I then consider myself informed for the day. I also enjoy listening to music. I flip between a variety of radio stations 88.5 , 90.1 , 90.9 , 91.7 , 92.5 , 97.3 , 100.3 and 102.9 and CDs on the way to work, and listen to Pandora or YouTube when I'm on the puter . When I think I can sing, I like to attempt From this Moment , Tonight and th

Click on 'Bugging You' for a cute little ditty. Ended up not being able to write last night as Dadums was trying to sleep and the clicking of the keys was driving him insane. Happy Belated Birthday Dō ! The big 56 - w oohoo! We hope you had a great day and are looking forward to seeing you so we can celebrate together. I hope everything is getting figured out and that you will soon have your house and life back to normal. Give us a call soon! x oxo So, my last day at work was yesterday. That was a hard thing to go through. There have been so many people saying goodbye in the past week, letting me know how much I have helped them and will be missed. "The Girls" put together the best cake and tea, and my gifts ... I received so many beautiful and funky and fun and practical and impractical things - it was overwhelming! Many people came and I hope I didn't miss chatting with anyone. It was so nice to see everyone; there were a couple missing and one I was shocked t

Today was such a sad day with so many wonderful moments. It was my last day at work.

What to discuss today? What's new and exciting? I'm watching our little Sasha pug completely passed out on the bed; Lucifer is tucked behind the pillows. Daigums is snoring on the couch. Braunt and I ran around town doing some shopping. We were discussing driving in the winter and standards versus automatics and many other things, as both he and I took turns driving. His friend DG just got his license, but hasn't had much experience driving and so we were talking about how important it is for kids' to get experience driving with an adult before they get their license. I'm not sure if everyone knows this, but new drivers need 50 hours behind the wheel in order to be fully prepared for the road by themselves. That's 1 hour of driving time per week. With the price of gas and restrictions on everyone's time, that can be difficult. But give it a try. We also talked about the young man being charged because of the death of Levi and Melissa. Actually, we've bee

We have way too much stuff. In our bedrooms, kitchen, drawers, cupboards, closets, shelves, cabinets, basement, laundry, storage ... TOO MUCH STUFF! So, we need to scale down some of this stuff and what better way to do that than to sell it. Right? Well, I always have these great aspirations of things when they're in my mind and even during the planning stages. However, when it actually comes down the event itself or whatever it is ... well, things don't' always go quite as planned. Like when we were going to have a garage sale (to deal with "stuff" we had back then) and we had it the first weekend of April and it snowed!! We made a lot of cash and got rid of bunches, but it was crazy! I'm thinking of trying Kijiji and Buysell so we'll see how that goes. I'm changing jobs in a week. I won't be commuting any longer, will be getting relatively the same money and will have a lot less headaches and stress. I am really going to miss the folks I wor